[CentOS] Good things about CentOS 5; problem with flash in seamonkey

Wed May 2 22:40:11 UTC 2007
Ioannis Vranos <ivranos at freemail.gr>


Mark Hull-Richter wrote:
> I'd like to point out that overall I am quite pleased with CentOS 5,
> although I am having more fun with it than I did with 4.4 and I knew
> less about CentOS then (duh).
> 
> Most things seem to work fine, including a relatively smooth
> installation from the DVD image I downloaded, although the number of
> screensavers I can see (and this could be related to the ATI/dual head
> problem) is pathetically low - there are only 5 or six.  Phleagh.  I
> had no trouble reinstalling the border theme I had before, and
> although I don't particularly like the new main menu construction, it
> makes sense enough to be not too unworthwhile.  I'm curious about how
> the suspend function works, how to reactivate (nothing seemed to work)
> and, most importantly, how to get it OFF the main menu.
> 
> Anyway, I reinstalled Seamonkey 1.1.1, and it landed flawlessly,
> although I had to look to find the x86_64 version.  It came without
> any plugins, as usual, but I have tried reinstalling the flash player
> plugin, and it just won't work, not even with nspluginwrapper
> installed.  Is there some trick to this that I need to know (and
> what?)?
> 
> Thanks.


Myself installed flash player from rpmforge, and it works OK under 
firefox. Perhaps you may give it a try?